Domestic lifting appliance



March 17, 1925. 1,530,354

H. COX

DOMESTI C LIFTING APPLIANCE Patented Mar. 17, 1925.

HENRY COX, or HOLLOWAY, LONDON, ENGLAND.

DOMESTIC LIFTING APPLIANCE.

Application filed June 20, 1923. SeriaI NO. 646,621.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, HENRY Cox, a British subject, residing at 1 Hertslet Road, Holloway, London, N. 7, England, have invented 5 certain new and useful Improvements in Domestic Lifting Appliances, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to domestic lifting appliances. 7

An object of the invention is to provide an improved appliance for lifting such articles as hot pudding basins, hot plates, ice blocks, lumps of coal and other such articles normally awkward to handle.

Other objects of the invention will be understood from the following description of a preferred form of the device and from the accompanying drawings and claim. I

Referring to the drawings:

Fig. 1 represents a perspective view of the appliance with the arms in closed position.

Fig. 2 represents a similar view with the arms in expanded position.

In this form of the improved lifting ap- 25 pliance the arms a are formed with fingers b for engagement under the rim w of a pudding basin or the like; the arms are hinged to a cross-head 0 which carries a central tube or sleeve j and two side rods 30 h which terminate in loops or eyes 9 through which are passed fingers of the user.

A plunger rod (Z carries a disk 6 the edges of which are bent up and are perforated to pass over the arms.

The plunger rod terminates on the other side of the tube or sleeve in a handle or loop 7, and by passing two fingers through the loops 9 and the thumb through the plungerrod loop f, the plunger rod can 40 easily be made to slide through the sleeve thus causing the arms to open or close to grip or release an article. It is to be particularly noted that the arms a are curved throughout their lower portions and sub stantially straight betweenthe curved portions and the cross hea d 0, and that the upward movement of the disc 6 serves to spread the free terminals of the arms while the downward movement to contract or move the the arms together. Th

of said disc serves free terminals of s operation is 1marms are open at their widest point, the

maximum vertical distance between the ends of the arms and the bottom of the disc is provided within the planes of the arms.

The tube 7' and side rods are connected at the top by a sleeve k.

One of the loops 9 provides a ready means for suspending the devic The fingers b are preferably wedge shaped e when not in use.

in general form and inverted as shown so that 1n the case where it 1s desired to 11ft a hot basin from a saucepan the points 5 .of the wedges can readily be inserted between the basin and the Wall of the pan,

and move the former if necessary so that the heels b of the wedges can engage be neath the rim as of the basin.

I claim: A lifting appliance,

including a cross head, arms pivotally connected thereto, a

tube rising from the cross head, a rod slidable in the tube and extending through the cross head, a plate connected t o the lower end of said rod and slidably receiving said arms, rods rising from the cross head ad acent the tube, andrings carr ed by the upper ends of said, rods, the respective rings being relatively dlsposed to permit CODVGHIQIHJ' movement of the plate.

In testimony whereof ture.

I afiix my signa- HENRY COX. 

